Author: Gary Paulsen
ISBN:9781416936473
Genre: Survival
Award: Honor of the1988 Newbery Medal Award
Summary
Brian Robeson is a thirteen year old boy, who parents were divorced. He was on a plane flying to Canada to spend the summer with his father. On the plane, there is only Brian and a pilot. During the flight, the pilot had a heart attack and pass away. Brian tried to land, but end up crashed in an L shape lake. The plane sank into the bottom of the lake. He survived from the crash. The misery did not end after the crash. He found him in a wilderness forest somewhere in Canada. He has nothing now, except a hatchet that his mother gives to him before boarding the plane. He needs to survive on his own until rescue team found him.
Review
The story makes me think. What if I were in the same situation as Brian did in the book, will I survive? The story was very infective. While reading the book, I feel like I was in the wilderness too. I think for a book to be successful it has to be connectable and readers feel like he or she is a character in the book. Hatchet certainly did it work. This book, also, has the magic that make readers want to read its sequel and books have similar topic and genre. I definitely recommend this book to others. One of my favorites book.
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